Windsor Course Guide

Windsor hosts racing throughout the summer, the majority of which takes place during their regular Monday evening meetings. Run in May, the Listed Royal Windsor Stakes is the Berkshire track’s first big race of the year.

The Listed Leisure Stakes ran over six furlongs for horses age three and older, has been used in the past as a prep-race for horses targeting the big midsummer sprints at Ascot and Newmarket and has been won in recent years by Tropics (2015), Markab (2012), Bated Breath (2011) and JJ The Jet Plane (2009).

Later on in the summer Windsor stages the Midsummer Stakes, a Listed contest run over a mile and open to three-year-olds and older and, over August Bank Holiday weekend, the Group Three Winter Hill Stakes. The contest is run over twelve furlongs and features some useful horses on its past winners list, not least 2015 winner Al Kazeem.

Flat Racing

A figure of eight shape, twelve and a half furlongs in extent. Races around a mile and a half see both left and right-handed turns, but in races below that distance, only right-handed turns are met. Though perfectly flat throughout, the track is sharp in character. However due to the length of the run-in (nearly five furlongs), galloping sorts aren't inconvenienced. When the going is very testing fields tend to track across to the far side, although it is a greater factor at sprint trips. Those drawn high are favoured otherwise at five and six furlongs.

Windsor’s bottom turn has been christened ‘carnage corner’ and you can get into all sorts of trouble if the one in front slows down there, causing a concertina effect. It’s a sharp right-hander and if you employ different tactics, kicking-on on a front-runner there, you can really get those behind you at it, especially anybody caught wide. You need a balanced horses at Windsor, even though the course is flat, and a ballsy ride can pay dividends, because a path can often open up late-on on the stands’ rail.

View from the saddle: Jason Weaver

Windsor Top Times
Last 5 years

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat
Flat

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 37y	Koukeo (Good)	01 Jan 2026	3m 53.74s
2m 4f 42y	Toothless (Good)	01 Jan 2026	4m 59.15s
2m 6f 41y	Protektorat (Soft)	19 Jan 2025	5m 39.12s
3m 60y	Fortune Dancer (Good)	01 Jan 2026	6m 14.45s
3m 4f 162y	Planned Paradise (Soft)	19 Jan 2025	7m 43.21s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m	Rukaana (Good)	01 Jan 2026	3m 51.13s
2m 4f	Listentoyourheart (Good)	01 Jan 2026	4m 45.22s
2m 6f	Fountains Blenhein (Good)	01 Jan 2026	5m 29.55s
3m	Roaring Conquest (Good to Soft)	23 Nov 2025	6m 6.95s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m	Idaho Sun (Soft)	19 Jan 2025	3m 55.87s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
5f 21y	Rocking Ends (Good to Firm)	14 Aug 2025	56.91s
6f 12y	Brosay (Good to Firm)	14 Aug 2025	1m 9.23s
1m 31y	Metabolt (Good to Firm)	17 Jun 2024	1m 39.09s
1m 2f	Regal Reality (Good to Soft)	27 Aug 2022	2m 3.01s
1m 3f 99y	Arabian Crown (Good to Firm)	23 Aug 2025	2m 22.62s

Windsor Top Trainers
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat
Flat

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	13	4	8	£53,212	30.77%	-£3.25
Dan Skelton	14	3	7	£195,114	21.43%	-£5.79
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	7	3	1	£48,195	42.86%	£9.50
G & J Moore	9	2	3	£39,037	22.22%	£17.40
P F Nicholls	8	1	4	£15,843	12.5%	-£1.00
P Hobbs & J White	6	1	3	£7,393	16.67%	-£1.00
Christian Williams	6	1	2	£15,843	16.67%	£20.00
Evan Williams	6	1	2	£15,843	16.67%	£11.00
B Pauling	3	1	2	£42,712	33.33%	£1.50
N J Henderson	4	1	1	£28,475	25%	-£2.56

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Dan Skelton	17	3	4	£87,677	17.65%	-£4.88
Miss E C Lavelle	8	2	5	£15,463	25%	£1.38
O Murphy	10	2	4	£21,124	20%	-£4.50
Jamie Snowden	8	2	2	£15,463	25%	£2.50
A J Honeyball	2	2	0	£17,164	100%	£6.33
N J Henderson	10	1	8	£33,820	10%	£11.00
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	8	1	4	£5,281	12.5%	-£3.67
P F Nicholls	7	1	3	£19,804	14.29%	-£5.38
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	7	1	2	£52,030	14.29%	-£4.00
N P Mulholland	5	1	1	£4,901	20%	-£1.00

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Dan Skelton	2	1	1	£21,124	50%	£11.00
H Fry	1	1	0	£21,124	100%	£3.50
B Pauling	2	0	1	£	0%	-£2.00
O Murphy	1	0	1	£	0%	-£1.00
P F Nicholls	1	0	1	£	0%	-£1.00
G & J Moore	1	0	1	£	0%	-£2.00
C Gordon	1	0	1	£	0%	-£2.00
Jamie Snowden	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00
A M Hales	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
A W Carroll	146	23	33	£138,396	15.75%	£102.38
W J Haggas	87	18	38	£186,337	20.69%	-£38.48
J & T Gosden	52	17	22	£91,180	32.69%	£6.17
R M Beckett	70	15	25	£90,719	21.43%	-£12.49
R Hannon	125	14	49	£66,669	11.2%	-£67.31
J Channon	66	14	17	£136,299	21.21%	-£12.05
A M Balding	98	13	46	£132,395	13.27%	-£56.08
C G Cox	67	13	26	£122,228	19.4%	£15.57
G Boughey	77	13	18	£82,291	16.88%	-£26.70
Eve Johnson Houghton	90	12	31	£74,029	13.33%	£21.50

Windsor Top Jockeys
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat
Flat

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Jonjo O'Neill Jr.	12	3	8	£45,819	25%	-£4.63
Harry Skelton	10	3	4	£195,114	30%	-£0.79
Ben Jones	6	3	2	£89,773	50%	£19.50
Sam Twiston-Davies	6	2	1	£22,180	33.33%	£7.50
Caoilin Quinn	5	2	1	£39,037	40%	£22.40
Callum Pritchard	4	2	1	£11,090	50%	£10.50
James Bowen	6	1	3	£10,562	16.67%	-£3.38
Jack Tudor	5	1	2	£15,843	20%	£21.00
Jay Tidball	3	1	2	£15,843	33.33%	£5.00
N de Boinville	4	1	1	£28,475	25%	-£2.56

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
G Sheehan	14	4	7	£32,627	28.57%	£6.83
H Cobden	6	3	2	£31,042	50%	£2.49
N de Boinville	9	2	6	£91,053	22.22%	£15.75
Harry Skelton	11	2	4	£35,647	18.18%	-£4.88
S Bowen	8	2	3	£21,124	25%	-£1.50
Sam Twiston-Davies	8	1	4	£52,030	12.5%	-£5.00
Jonjo O'Neill Jr.	5	1	3	£5,281	20%	-£0.67
J J Burke	3	1	2	£4,901	33.33%	-£2.00
James Bowen	4	1	1	£4,901	25%	£1.00
Isabelle Ryder	3	1	1	£10,562	33.33%	£1.50

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Harry Skelton	2	1	1	£21,124	50%	£11.00
Bryan Carver	1	1	0	£21,124	100%	£3.50
Ben Jones	2	0	1	£	0%	-£2.00
Caoilin Quinn	1	0	1	£	0%	-£1.00
Freddie Gordon	1	0	1	£	0%	-£1.00
S Bowen	1	0	1	£	0%	-£1.00
H Cobden	1	0	1	£	0%	-£2.00
G Sheehan	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00
Jonjo O'Neill Jr.	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00
P Byrnes	1	0	0	£	0%	-£1.00

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Oisin Murphy	193	45	91	£311,372	23.32%	-£46.54
Rossa Ryan	167	31	60	£187,896	18.56%	-£24.24
Tom Marquand	198	29	71	£140,561	14.65%	-£67.95
Billy Loughnane	100	17	34	£142,244	17%	-£24.40
Hollie Doyle	107	15	44	£69,505	14.02%	-£16.63
Saffie Osborne	133	14	45	£111,198	10.53%	-£71.48
K Shoemark	105	14	38	£82,347	13.33%	-£27.92
Marco Ghiani	76	14	17	£82,000	18.42%	£43.38
H Crouch	88	13	29	£74,885	14.77%	-£31.13
J Mitchell	94	11	42	£58,327	11.7%	-£32.17